On 04/ 1/12 04:06 PM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 07:53:24PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> </p><div class="sect4" title="Changed behavior caused by DDC."><div
>> class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a
>> id="Changed_behavior_caused_by_DDC."></a>Changed behavior caused by
>> DDC.</h5></div></div></div><p>
>> Several drivers use DDC information to set the screen size and
>> pitch. This can be overridden by explicitly resetting it to
>> the and non-DDC default value 75 with the <code
>> class="option">-dpi 75</code>
>> command line option for the X
>> server, or by specifying appropriate screen dimensions with the
>> "DisplaySize" keyword in the "Monitor" section of the config
>> file.
>
> As nice as it would be to have X go back to automatically having
> readable fonts on modern high-DPI displays, this paragraph no longer
> describes the current behavior of the X server. X now gathers display
> size information from DDC at startup, prints it to the server log, then
> discards it and uses hard-coded incorrect values.
>
> Suggested replacement text:
>
> The X server previously used DDC information to detect screen size and
> pitch, and compute DPI automatically, allowing fonts and other UI
> elements to automatically scale to appropriate sizes. This mechanism
> worked reasonably well for many single-monitor cases, but did not
> compute accurate DPI values for multi-monitor cases or less common
> single-display setups. Thus, this autodetection has been removed, and
> the X server no longer tries to compute an appropriate DPI value. All
> users wanting fonts, physical measurement units, and other UI elements
> scaled appropriately for their display (including users for whom
> autodetection previously worked) must now set DPI or some other scaling
> factor explicitly, either via the X server's -dpi option, a DPI setting
> in their graphical enironment, or an alternate scaling mechanism
> provided by their environment.
Applied that change - thanks.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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